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Last week the selfsame statue had velvet ropes placed around it as protection from a throng of photographers. Flashbulbs popped, TV lights poured out their bluish-white certification of celebrity. If marble could think, this particular chunk of it must have wondered what on earth was going...
...leading experts in ragtime and novelty piano, explains that "unlike the ragtime musicians, who were young, itinerant blacks, the novelty folks were primarily classically trained. These influences showed up in the more advanced harmonies in their music. It still sounds like ragtime, and the left hand is boom, chunk, boom, chunk, but they leave no syncopated stone unturned...
...private label has fared well (its latest success: imported Canadian diva Alanis Morissette, whose Grammy-nominated CD Jagged Little Pill has hit No. 1). The Rolling Stones' two albums since their 1992 $35 million contract with Virgin have had mild sales, but the fact they brought with them a chunk of their lucrative back catalog has made the deal more palatable...
...Massachusetts, 30 of the state's 155 biotech companies are linked directly to MIT graduates, faculty or technology. Together these compa- nies accounted for 3,200 jobs and $520 million in revenues in 1994--a sizeable chunk of the state's 15,000 biotech jobs and $1.8 billion in revenue...
...biggest chunk of the Republican tax plan is this per-child credit, which would cost $149.7 billion over seven years. Conservative House members wanted to offer it to families earning as much as $200,000 in adjusted income. In the Senate, that was cut to $110,000, though a portion of it would be available to families making as much as $150,000. Clinton's $500-per-child credit phases out for household incomes...